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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.
Chall's Stage 5
Suffix
Standard score
Breve
2. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t
CTOPP
Top-down Reading Approach
VV
Anna Gillingham
3. Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth Edition Screening test. Provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties Standard Scores - Percentile Ranks - Grade Equivalents - Age Equivale
Derived Score
Universal Screening
GORT
Linguistic Method
4. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.
Academic Achievement Tests
Syllable
James Hinshelwood
Macron
5. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
NICHD
Digraph
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
6. Federal Law. Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$ - Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace.
Joe Torgesen
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
MSL
7. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others
Sound Symbol Association
Fluency
Expressive language
[-'le
8. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT
Accommodation
Standardized test
Chall's Stage 1
Standard score
9. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.
CTOPP
Keith Stanovich
Breve
Sight Words
10. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.
Sound Symbol Association
Progress Monitoring
Age equivalent
Affix
11. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes
Standard deviation
Morphology
The Norman Conquest
Letter naming Chart
12. Take frequent study breaks - move around to learn new things - work at a standing position - chew gum while standing - listen to music while studying - skim material first then read in detail
Analytic
Phonology
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
GORT
13. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.
Norm-referenced tests
Accommodation
Adolf Kusmaul
Keith Stanovich
14. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
WIATII
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Criterion-Referenced Test
15. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.
Greek layer of language
Vowel Digraph
Rate
Joe Torgesen
16. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)
Percentile/ percentile rank
VV
NICHD
Grade equivalents
17. A significant unit of visual shape. We use the visual shape as to cover not only writing - but also any other shape perceived by the eye which is a visible representation of a unit of speech. A single graphic letter or letter cluster which represents
Auditory Learners
Grapheme
Profile
V >
18. Individuals with a Disabilities Act
Social language
CTOPP
Whole Language
IDEA
19. Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder - longer - and/or in a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an accented syllable.
Accent
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Auditory Learners
20. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS
ALTA
Visual Processing
Progress Monitoring
Mathew Effect
21. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language
VC
Stanine Scores
Multi-Sensory Approach
Latin layer of language
22. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.
Phonics
Curriculum referenced tests
Social language
Reading Comprehension Support
23. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.
Derived Score
Analytic
Universal Screening
Digraph
24. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning
CTOPP
Reading Comprehension Support
NICHD
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
25. State Board of Eduation
Impulsivity
Percentile/ percentile rank
Top-down Reading Approach
SBOE
26. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.
Auditory Processing
Keith Stanovich
Auditory Learners
Social language
27. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Standardized test
Phonology
Vowel
28. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.
Texas Education Code 38.003
Cognitive Assessment
Macron
Norm-referenced tests
29. A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require decoding to identify. A sight word may or may not be phonetically regular.
Reliability
Rate
Towre
Sight Words
30. Statistical measure of the degree of dispersion in distribution of scores. Measures spread of a set of data around mean of the data. The more widely the values are spread out - the larger the standard deviation.
Old English
Standard deviation
Expressive language
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
31. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -
WRAT
Middle English
Norm-Referenced Test
Towre
32. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test
Open Syllable
Standardized test
Reliability
Affix
33. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Whole Language
The Norman Conquest
Great Vowel Shift
ADHD
34. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag
Expressive language
CTOPP
Sound Symbol Association
The Norman Conquest
35. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.
Texas Education Code 38.003
CTOPP
Accommodation
Percentile
36. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)
Reading Comprehension Support
ALTA
Open Syllable
Consonant Digraph
37. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept
Frank Smith
Standard score
Progress Monitoring
Breve
38. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Consonant Digraph
Whole Language
Visual Learners
Dyslexia
39. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.
Visual Processing
Kinesthetic
Attention
Rate
40. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading
Combination
Latin layer of language
Joe Torgesen
Consonant Digraph
41. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness
Diagnostic tests
Chall's Stage 2
Phonemic Awareness
Norm-referenced tests
42. The process of systematically gathering test scores and related data in order to make judgement about an individuals ability to perform various mental activities involved in the processing - acquisition - retention - conceptualization - and organizat
Cognitive Assessment
Syllable Instruction
Orthography
Funding
43. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)
Quadrigraph
Frank Smith
Social language
Middle English
44. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo
Matthew Effect
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Grapheme
Simultaneous teaching
45. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy
Attention
Diphthong
V-e
Six basic types of syllables
46. Open syllable
Middle English
Oral Language
Suffix
V >
47. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.
VV
Consonant Digraph
Latin layer of language
Sound Symbol Association
48. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies
Middle English
Towre
Components of Reading Instruction
Diagnostic tests
49. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.
Curriculum referenced tests
Ability
Visual Learners
Comprehension
50. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.
Phonemic/ decodable words
The Norman Conquest
Grapheme
Standard score